Making a game about hacking is not easy, especially if you want it to go beyond a blinking terminal. NightSchool and Telltale games may have found an innovative solution for a game based on the Mr Robot TV series though, by creating a real-time, text-adventure, where you interact entirely through …
Read More »Smartphone app proves almost as effective as contraceptive pill
Although the rhythm method is one that non-religious organisations might mock or deride as ineffective, it turns out that if you take that sort of idea and mix it up with smart tracking, it actually becomes very effective. Natural Cycles is an application that tracks the user's temperature over time …
Read More »Roald Dahl characters to return in new app games
The Twits and other Roald Dahl characters might have frightened, inspired and amazed children of many generations past, but they've never been brought to the fore in quite such a style as this. In a series of new applications, the classical author's most iconic characters are set to make their …
Read More »Would you want to be woken up by a stranger?
I barely want to subject my significant other to my morning breath and craggy attitude first thing, let alone a stranger, but apparently that's just me, as a new startup firm called Wakie has just launched its app on iOS. The purpose of the application is to replace your alarm …
Read More »Office of fair trading to investigate in-app purchasing
The Office of Fair Trading is set to investigate what it describes as “aggressive” in-app purchases, especially in games aimed at children, following on from several instances where kids playing on parents' phones has resulted in bills that are thousands of pounds deep. “We are concerned that children and their …
Read More »Steam app for mobile devices released to the public
Following an announcement just last week from Valve announcing a closed beta of its new Steam app for iOs and Android devices, the app has now become widely available to all and sundry and has been reported to work faultlessly even on some of the oldest Android phones. The Steam …
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